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To act the part of a marton toward; to superintend; to chaperone; as, to matronize an assembly.

To advance toward maturity; to become ripe; as, wine matures by age; the judgment matures by age and experience.

urpose; aim; object; as, a mischievous meaning was apparent. If there be any good meaning towards you. Shak.

The doctrine that there is a tendency throughout nature toward improvement. J. Sully.

Position in the south; aspect toward the south.

Toward, or on the side toward, the mesial plane; mesially; -- opposed to laterad.

In, near, or toward, the mesial plane; mesiad.

be madness, yet there's method in it. Shak. All method is a rational progress, a progress toward an end. Sir W. Hamilton.

In or toward the midst.

Towards the morn. [Poetic] And mornward now the starry hands move on. Lowell.

Placed horizontally across the field, as if swimmimg toward the dexter side; said of all sorts of fishes except the flying fish.

Toward the neural side; -- opposed to hæmad.

Having the limbs on, or directed toward, the neural side, as in most invertebrates; -- opposed to Ant: hæmapodous. G. Rolleston.

ced diagonally in the axis, and near the open end of the tube, and thrown at right angles toward one side of the tube, where the image is formed and viewed through the eyeplace. -- Newtonian theory of light. See Note under Light.

To act the niggard toward; to be niggardly. [R.] Shak.

Approaching toward night.

A striving; an effort; a conatus. A nisus or energizing towards a presented object. Hickok.

Lying toward the north; situated at the north, or in a northern direction from the point of observation or reckoning; proceeding toward the north, or coming from the north. North following. See Following, a., 2. -- North pole, that point in the heavens, or on the earth, ninety degrees from the equator toward the north…

Of or pertaining to the northeast; proceeding toward the northeast, or coming from that point; as, a northeast course; a northeast wind. Northeast passage, a passage or communication by sea between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans along the north coast of Asia.

Pertaining to the northeast; toward the northeast, or coming from the northeast.